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Having problems with your Toshiba Satellite A100-S8111TD Notebook ?

When switching power on you can hear it powering up to begin with then once the fan reaches its its hight the power light goes of and the process is repeated approx 5 times before it shuts down completely. when the problem 1st occured it only did it from time to time but would still boot now it seems to be perminant. I know this is not a problem with the hard drive please help me :-)

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Either your ram is bad or your hard drive is bad... I am thinking hard drive...

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